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| Author: | Colling, T. Clark, I. |
| Title: | Looking for 'Americanness': Home-Country, Sector and Firm Effects on Employment Systems in an Engineering Services Company |
| Journal: | European Journal of Industrial Relations
2002 : NOV, VOL. 8:3, p. 301-324 |
| Index terms: | SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES EUROPE MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES EMPLOYMENT ENGINEERING INDUSTRY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The research reported here begins from the premise that employment relations within the European subsidiaries of American multinationals are influenced critically by the US business system, generating preferences for non- unionism, individualized pay and performance management, and quality management, for example. Further, these can be traced through examination of control systems extended from corporate headquarters. The article complicates this general picture. Despite the case company's leading position within an American- dominated industry, engineering process contracting, the authors consistently found authority vested in local managers, and host-country orientations to the management of employment relations in the UK subsidiary. |
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